End-to-End Testing Contracts in the North West

End-to-End Testing
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring End-to-End Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited End-to-End Testing over the 6 months leading up to 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 97 122 143
Rank change year-on-year +25 +21 +14
Contract jobs citing End-to-End Testing 27 17 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.38% 0.64% 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.53% 0.74% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 17 8
10th Percentile £351 - £394
25th Percentile £400 - £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £694 £566
90th Percentile £685 - £665
England median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

End-to-End Testing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,767 2,287 2,794
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 90.06% 85.91% 90.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,148 1,459 1,960
10th Percentile £300 £311 £313
25th Percentile £390 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £566 £594 £588
90th Percentile £663 £689 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 253 139
10th Percentile £15.23 £10.96 £16.25
25th Percentile £22.74 £13.50 £22.47
Median hourly rate £32.25 £24.19 £35.03
Median % change year-on-year +33.32% -30.94% +50.85%
75th Percentile £63.40 £46.18 £49.08
90th Percentile £85.03 £62.50 £66.00
England median hourly rate £28.60 £36.50 £37.15
% change year-on-year -21.64% -1.75% +48.60%

End-to-End Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing End-to-End Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for End-to-End Testing in the North West

End-to-End Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing End-to-End Testing in the North West.

Daily rate trend for End-to-End Testing in the North West

End-to-End Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing End-to-End Testing in the North West over the 6 months to 20 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for End-to-End Testing in the North West

End-to-End Testing
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing End-to-End Testing within the North West region over the 6 months to 20 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Manchester +15 11 £500 -13.98% 16
Cheshire - 11 £400 - 6
Merseyside - 4 £750 - 5
Cumbria - 1 £500 -
End-to-End Testing
England

End-to-End Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.70%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (3.70%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (3.70%) SAP APO
1 1 (3.70%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (11.11%) AWS
2 1 (3.70%) Amazon S3
2 1 (3.70%) Amazon SageMaker
2 1 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (3.70%) Azure
2 1 (3.70%) Azure Machine Learning
2 1 (3.70%) GitHub
2 1 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (3.70%) Serverless
2 1 (3.70%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (14.81%) Siebel EIM
2 1 (3.70%) MongoDB
2 1 (3.70%) MySQL
2 1 (3.70%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (22.22%) Selenium
2 5 (18.52%) JIRA
3 4 (14.81%) JMeter
3 4 (14.81%) LoadRunner
4 2 (7.41%) REST Assured
4 2 (7.41%) Zephyr
5 1 (3.70%) Bitbucket
5 1 (3.70%) Git
5 1 (3.70%) Jenkins
5 1 (3.70%) MLflow
General
1 19 (70.37%) Social Skills
2 8 (29.63%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (29.63%) Banking
2 8 (29.63%) Finance
3 7 (25.93%) Public Sector
4 3 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (7.41%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 5 (18.52%) Tester
2 4 (14.81%) Architect
2 4 (14.81%) Developer
2 4 (14.81%) Software Tester
3 3 (11.11%) Siebel Developer
3 3 (11.11%) Test Architect
4 2 (7.41%) Analyst
4 2 (7.41%) QA Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Test Analyst
4 2 (7.41%) Test Manager
4 2 (7.41%) UAT Analyst
4 2 (7.41%) UAT Test Analyst
5 1 (3.70%) Business Continuity Manager
5 1 (3.70%) Business Manager
5 1 (3.70%) Consultant
5 1 (3.70%) IT Manager
5 1 (3.70%) IT Services Manager
5 1 (3.70%) SAP Manager
5 1 (3.70%) SAP Test Manager
5 1 (3.70%) Siebel Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (14.81%) JMS
1 4 (14.81%) SOAP
1 4 (14.81%) Web Services
2 3 (11.11%) Node.js
3 2 (7.41%) Playwright
4 1 (3.70%) AngularJS
4 1 (3.70%) CSS
4 1 (3.70%) CSS3
4 1 (3.70%) GraphQL
4 1 (3.70%) HTML
4 1 (3.70%) HTML5
4 1 (3.70%) PyTorch
4 1 (3.70%) React
4 1 (3.70%) REST
4 1 (3.70%) RESTful
4 1 (3.70%) TensorFlow
4 1 (3.70%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.11%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (3.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (14.81%) Linux
2 3 (11.11%) Android
2 3 (11.11%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (51.85%) Test Automation
2 11 (40.74%) CI/CD
3 9 (33.33%) Agile
3 9 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (33.33%) System Integration Testing
4 8 (29.63%) Performance Testing
4 8 (29.63%) Test Strategy
5 7 (25.93%) Integration Testing
5 7 (25.93%) Migration
5 7 (25.93%) User Acceptance Testing
6 6 (22.22%) Manual Testing
6 6 (22.22%) SDLC
6 6 (22.22%) Test Management
7 5 (18.52%) DevOps
7 5 (18.52%) Performance Tuning
7 5 (18.52%) Requirements Gathering
7 5 (18.52%) Stakeholder Management
7 5 (18.52%) Test Scripting
8 4 (14.81%) Software Testing
8 4 (14.81%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 9 (33.33%) SQL
2 4 (14.81%) PL/SQL
3 3 (11.11%) Java
3 3 (11.11%) JavaScript
4 2 (7.41%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (25.93%) Security Cleared
2 5 (18.52%) ISTQB
2 5 (18.52%) SC Cleared
3 2 (7.41%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.70%) Degree
4 1 (3.70%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.11%) SEPA
2 2 (7.41%) ISO 22301
2 2 (7.41%) ISO 31000
2 2 (7.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (7.41%) QA
System Software
1 2 (7.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (11.11%) HP ALM
2 2 (7.41%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (18.52%) Oracle
1 5 (18.52%) ServiceNow
2 4 (14.81%) Siebel
3 3 (11.11%) HP
3 3 (11.11%) SAP
4 1 (3.70%) Ariba